| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| A Note on Editions | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Introduction The Subject of Chaucerian Reception | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Writing Like the Clerk: Laureate Poets and the Aureate World | 22 |
| Ch. 2 | Reading Like the Squire: Chaucer, Lydgate, Clanvowe, and the Fifteenth-Century Anthology | 57 |
| Ch. 3 | Reading Like a Child: Advisory Aesthetics and Scribal Revision in the Canterbury Tales | 85 |
| Ch. 4 | The Complaints of Adam Scriveyn: John Shirley and the Canonicity of Chaucer's Short Poems | 117 |
| Ch. 5 | At Chaucer's Tomb: Laureation and Paternity in Caxton's Criticism | 147 |
| Ch. 6 | Impressions of Identity: Print, Poetry, and Fame in Hawes and Skelton | 176 |
| Envoy "All this ys said vnder correctyon" | 209 |
| Appendix | 219 |
| Notes | 223 |
| Works Cited | 285 |
| Index | 303 |
